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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
You know as well as I that cheap econo cars were every bit as available as SUVs.
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No they are not. not even close.
SURE a brand new SUV is far more expensive than a brand new Econo car but I can afford NEITHER and neither can most people.
when your buying USED. when you price is limited to say $1000 or $2000 suddenly things flip. old gas guzzlers are a LOT cheaper than Econo cars.
An example. I was barely able to afford my metro. $600. thankfully he took payments. Thankfully he let me buy the $1200 in parts it needed through him at cost bringing the price down to around $500 and thankfully I was able to do 100% of the work myself (another $1500 savings AT LEAST)
essentially to the average person this was a nearly $3600 car. (it did need a lot of work but the car is soooo easy to work on and I got the parts so cheap)
To the average person they would not be so lucky. Ever price what a clean rust free metro goes for? $2500 is the current average asking price on craigslist with really clean models commanding quite a bit more.
The people you see driving around in crown vic and old ford explorer's ? most of them DO NOT HAVE $2500 :-)